Lady&#39;s garment



Oct. 21, 1947. N. A. COLONNA I 25429396 LADYS GARMENT Filed Sept. 22. 1943 INVENTOR lV/COLfl 4N 7'0/V/0 C01. O/VNA ATTORNEY Patented Oct. 21, 1947 LADYS GARMENT Nicola Antonio Colonna, Bronx, N. Y.

Application September 22, 1943, Serial No. 503,393

2 Claims.

This invention relates to ladies garments and to patterns therefor.

It is an object of this invention to provide a garment which for certain purposes may be worn as a slack, but which may be readily converted into a skirt, either with visible knickers or with the leg portions completely concealed.

It is a further object to provide a pattern for such a garment which may be simply utilized to fashion the garment and which will provide for creating garments of diiferent sizes and for changing from one size to another with great simplicity.

It is a further object to provide a pattern in which the effect of the sln'rt portion may be varied with great ease to produce widely different effects.

The invention accordingly comprises an article of manufacture possessing the features, p erties and the relation of elements which be exemplified in the article hereinafter described and the scope of the application of which will be indicated in the claims.

For a fuller understanding of the nature and objects of the invention, reference should be had to the following detailed description, taken in connection with the accompanying drawings, in Which:

Fig. 1 is a garment embodying this invention, with the trousers extended and the skirt portion wrapped around. Fig. 2 is a view of the same garment, with the skirt portion open. Fig. 3 is a View similar to Fig. 1, but with the trousers fastened up beneath the skirt. Fig. 4 is a View of the garment with the trousers in knickerbocker form. Fig. 5 is a view of one cutting of the garment in which the skirt portions may be wound separately around each leg. Fig. 6 is a pattern from which the garment in the various forms may be cut.

In the drawings, the numeral 29 represents a front leg section of the garment, having a bottom line 2| and a side seam line 22 extending from the bottom to the top, as shown at 22 although the upper portion of this seam will vary with different sizes of garment. This section 23 also has an inside seam line E i extending from the bottom 2! to the crotch point 25, and a crotch seam line 26 extending from that point to the top of the garment. Extending outwardly of the seam lines 22 and 2d at the bottom or" the garment are two tabs 28 and 29 provided with suitable fastening means; for example, the tab may be provided with buttons 36 and the tab 23 with button holes 3|.

Extending beyond the seam line 22 at the top of the garment and running as far down as it is desirable to provide a skirt, is an arcuate skirt portion 32 defined by an upper curved line 33 to Wrap around the waist and a lower curved line fit to serve as a lower end of the skirt. From a t where the lower ends 3% of the skirt join in 22, up to the top portion of the skirt, the pattern itself will have a plurality of angularly .ced lines 3%, 3? and 38 to provide for different sizes of garments. Skirt will be used herein to include that portion of the skirt which is formed in front of and behind the garment by joining together of the arcuate skirt portions. This front leg portion 29 of the pattern is also preferably provided with two angularly spaced lines ii and 32 extending from the bottom to the top, which are intended to be sewn together to form a pleat and the pattern is provided with two angularly spaced lines 43 and id extending downwardly toward the larger portion of the hips, forming a dart to provide ample room at the hips.

The rear portions of the garment are formed from the pattern shown at the left in 6, which descriptively'is similar in all respects to the parts we have just described except that the pleat comprising the lines 6! and 52 is not provided in the back sections and necessarily the exact shape and curvature of the two parts will diiier according to well known principles to secure a proper fit. The parts on the rear portion of the pattern are given the identical same numbers as those on the right with the number added. Thus the side seam of the rear pat ern section would be I22 instead of 22.

In constructing the garment, the patterns may be laid upon the cloth after the latter has been doubled back upon itself, so that two sections 29 and two sections I20 are cut from the goods. Each section I20 is thereafter superposed upon the corresponding section 29, and the seams 22 and 24 are sewn in a suitable manner, using either line 35, 3'! or 38 as the line of stitching. Similarly the inner seam 2d will be sewn up to the crotch point. After that the right leg of the slacks is attached to the left leg by a line of sewing along the crotch line. It would of course be understood that a lining may be used if desired and that a suitable belt construction may be employed around the waist.

Great difierences in effect may be obtained by changing the contour of the skirt portion of the garment, and to this end the pattern is provided with a plurality of lines A, B, C and D, any one 3 of which may be utilized as the contour when cutting the garment.

When the garment is out along the lines indicated by the letter A, it may be worn in any of the modes shown in Figs. 1 to 4. The garment as thus constructed will, as will be appreciated, have two fiat portions extending out laterally along each side seam, one of these flat portions comprising the member 32 of the front section and one comprising the member I32 of the rear section. If the two sections 32 are folded around in superposed relation across the front and the two sections I32 folded around in superposed relation across the rear, the garment will appear as shown in Fig. 1. A different effect is obtained if the sections 32 and I32 on each side are both pinned up together at the waist on the same side. This effect is shown in Fig. 2. This figure also illustrates how the bottom of the leg portions 2| and I2I may be gathered up and buttoned tight around the ankles.

Fig. 3 shows the skirt portion arranged as described in Fig. 1, but having the lower end of the leg portion of the slacks gathered up and fastened about the leg at or above the knee so as to be completely concealed by the skirt portion, thus creating the effect of a person wearing a skirt without slacks. If desired, the lower end of the slacks may be gathered up, but not so far as illustrated in Fig. 3, thus providing a knickerbocker effect, as shown in Fig. 4.

If the garment is cut along the lines 13, C,- or D, correspondingly different effects will be obtained, as will be apparent. If, however, the garment is out along the line C, it also makes it possible to wrap the skirt portion so formed around each leg separately, as shown in Fig. 5.

Since certain changes may be made in the above construction and different embodiments of the invention could be made without departing from the scope thereof, it is intended that all matter contained in the above description or shown in the accompanying drawings shall be interpreted as illustrative and not in a limiting sense.

It is also to be understood that the following claims are intended to cover all of the generic and specific features of the invention herein de scribed, and all statements of the scope of the invention which, as a matter of language, might be said to fall therebetween.

Having described my invention, what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent is:

1. A garment comprising a Waistband, a pair of trousers legs extending substantially from the waistband to the ankle, and attached together along the crotch seam and attached to said waistband, a pair of skirt flaps attached to each trousers leg along the outer seam thereof, and extending from the waist to a point just below the knee to leave a portion of the trousers legs exposed below said flaps, said flaps being free from the waistband except at the said outer seam, and being of a size and shape to join across the front and back to form a skirt portion, and means for holding the flaps in either of two positions, either extending across the front of the trousers portion, or gathered together at the outer seam.

2. A garment comprising a waistband, a pair of trousers legs extending substantially from the waistband to the ankle, and attached together along the crotch seam and attached to said waist band, a pair of skirt flaps attached to each trousers leg along the outer seam thereof, and extending from the Waist to a point just below the knee to leave a portion of the trousers legs exposed below said flaps, said flaps being free from the waistband except at the said outer seam, and being of a size and shape to join across the front and back to form a skirt portion, and means for holding the flaps in either of two positions, either extending across the front of the trousers portion, or gathered together at the outer seam, and means for fastening the bottom of the trousers legs snugly about the legs at either knee or ankle.

NICQLA ANTONIO COLONNA.

REFERENCES CITED The following references are of record in the file of this patent:

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